Mum Thoughts

The #FabSkye just turned three. She is extra hyper, extra talkative, extra independent these days. While I love the uninterrupted sleep (except pag nawawala sya sa tabi ko tapos ako napaparanoid agad, bakit nga kaya tayo ganyang mga nanay no? Ano na-abduct ng alien habang tulog tayo? Ganern?!) and the fact that I could now spend a little more me time, I sometimes miss her being a baby.

I miss her baby smell. I miss her being small and clingy and always wanting dede. Just the other day, she said “I want dede Nanay”. And so I offered her my boob tapos sinubo nya lang. She didn’t suck like she used to. Parang, awkward na for her ang dumede. And I was like! OMG!! Things are really getting real.

Most of the time, naloloka na din ako on how she would react on things. Yung mga arte nyang “it’s not funny” pag natatawa kami sa kanya. And her “I’m just kidding!” when she made us laugh.

Marunong na ding magtampo at umarte.

Also, lately we’ve been changing our discipline tactics. Face the wall is no longer effective. We would usually have “a talk” now. Where I would make her seat and look at me and then I will tell her what she did that made me mad or why it is bad.

The other day I also tried the “dapa” method na effective sa amin kaya ta-try ko sana. Here’s what happened: